Ebook: Songs of the factory : pop music, culture, and resistance
Author: Korczynski Marek
- Tags: Music in the workplace -- England -- Midlands. Popular music -- Social aspects -- England -- Midlands. Working class -- England -- Midlands -- Social conditions. Industrial sociology -- England -- Midlands. Industrial sociology. Music in the workplace. Popular music -- Social aspects. Working class -- Social conditions. England -- Midlands.
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: ILR Press
- City: England--Midlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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"Examines the role that popular music plays in workers' culture on the factory floor. Reporting on his ethnographic fieldwork in a British factory that manufactures window blinds, Korczynski shows how workers make often-grueling assembly-line work tolerable by permeating their workday with pop music on the radio. The first ethnographic study of musical culture in an industrial workplace, Songs of the Factory draws Read more...
Abstract: "Examines the role that popular music plays in workers' culture on the factory floor. Reporting on his ethnographic fieldwork in a British factory that manufactures window blinds, Korczynski shows how workers make often-grueling assembly-line work tolerable by permeating their workday with pop music on the radio. The first ethnographic study of musical culture in an industrial workplace, Songs of the Factory draws on socio-musicology, cultural studies, and sociology of work, combining theoretical development, methodological innovation, and a vitality that brings the musical culture of the factory workers to life"